By MATT PIKE
A community member has stepped up and given the generous gift of free tickets to the St. Joseph Mustangs game on Saturday.
Mustangs General Manager and Owner Ky Turner says in 2022 an anonymous donor gifted tickets to games, and wanted to do it again this year, donating 500 tickets to the Mustangs.
Turner says the whole intent behind this is to do something nice, and hopefully have the domino effect, influencing others to go do something nice as well
“We’re very appreciative of the people involved in making this possible, but then we’re also very appreciative the people who take the challenge,” Turner tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “We heard so many great stories, whether it’s just holding the door open for somebody, I think one person said they went to a garage sale and they bought some items for some people who couldn’t afford an item and so they did something nice and purchased it for them.”
Turner says when the offer went up on social media, fans were very receptive
“We surpassed that 500 in under the first hour, and so I actually made a phone call and I haven’t made this edit online yet, I just went to the person who made that donation and I said hey this went quicker than what we thought, so they’ve actually upped their donation of how many tickets they’re going to provide,” Turner explains. “So, we’re kind of reserving that number back so I can just tell them once we get there, and they say ok that’s enough.”
Turner says it feels good to be able to use Mustangs baseball as a platform for this.
“We’re so appreciative of the team effort, whether it’s the team on the field and playing the game but then the team off the field in our community and just doing nice things there,” Turner says. “It’s really neat to use Mustangs baseball as that platform and just the domino effect it can have in our community, and St. Joe is just a wonderful community, it’s full of a lot of great people, and I don’t think sometimes we realize how awesome St. Joe is and can be.”
You can visit the Mustangs Facebook page to find a link to reserve tickets while they are still available.
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